Daily Mail column on Stephen Gately death provokes record complaints

• Protests crash PCC's website and flood internet • Companies rush to pull advertising from website Andrew Cowles and Stephen Gately at their civil partnership ceremony in March 2006. Photograph: Rex Features It must have seemed a routine assignment for one of the 's star columnists: a catty take on the death of star which pandered to the prejudices of its readers. But the paper was forced to withdraw from part of its web site after an extraordinary campaign prompted by a Jan Moir article questioning the role Gately's lifestyle and sexuality played in his death last Saturday. was among the major firms whose adverts were taken down following outrage at Moir's article, headlined "There was...

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